[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 15 (Monday, April 18, 1994)]
[Pages 790-791]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Message to the Congress on Angola

April 12, 1994

To the Congress of the United States:

    I hereby report to the Congress on the developments since September 
26, 1993, concerning the national emergency with respect to Angola that 
was declared in Executive Order No. 12865 of that date. This report is 
submitted pursuant to section 401(c) of the National Emergencies Act, 50 
U.S.C. 1641(c), and section 204(c) of the International Emergency 
Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(c).
    On September 26, 1993, I declared a national emergency with respect 
to Angola, invoking the authority, inter alia, of the International 
Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and the United 
Nations Participation Act of 1945 (22 U.S.C. 287c). Consistent with 
United Nations Security Council Resolution No. 864, dated September 15, 
1993, the order prohibits the sale or supply by United States persons or 
from the United States, or using U.S.-registered vessels or aircraft, of 
arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons and 
ammunition, military vehicles, equipment and spare parts, and petroleum 
and petroleum products to the territory of Angola other than through 
designated points of entry. The order also prohibits such sale or supply 
to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (``UNITA''). 
United States persons are prohibited from activities that promote or are 
calculated to promote such sales or supplies, or from attempted 
violations, or from evasion or avoidance or transactions that have the 
purpose of evasion or avoidance, of the stated prohibitions. The order 
authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, to take such actions including the promulgation of 
rules and regulations, as may be necessary to carry out the purposes of 
the order.
    1. On December 10, 1993, the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign 
Assets Control (``FAC'') issued the UNITA (Angola) Sanctions Regulations 
(the ``Regulations'') (58 Fed. Reg. 64904) to implement the President's 
declaration of a national emergency and imposition of sanctions against 
UNITA. A copy of the Regulations is attached for reference.
    The Regulations prohibit the sale or supply by United States persons 
or from the United States, or using U.S.-registered vessels or aircraft, 
of arms and related materiel of all types, including weapons and 
ammunition, military vehicles, equipment and spare parts, and petroleum 
and petroleum products to UNITA or to the territory of Angola other than 
through designated points. United States persons are also prohibited 
from activities that promote or are calculated to promote such sales or 
supplies to UNITA or Angola, or from any transaction by any United 
States persons that evades or avoids, or has the purpose of evading or 
avoiding, or attempts to violate any of the prohibitions set forth in 
the Executive order. Also prohibited are transactions by United States 
persons, or involving the use of U.S.-registered vessels or aircraft 
relating to transportation to Angola or to UNITA of goods the 
exportation of which is prohibited.
    The Government of Angola has initially designated the following 
points of entry as points in Angola to which the articles otherwise 
prohibited by the Regulations may be shipped: Airports: Luanda, and 
Katumbela, Benguela Province; Ports: Luanda, Lobito, Benguela Province, 
and Namibe, Namibe Province; and Entry Points: Malongo, Cabinda 
Province. Although no specific license is required by the Department of 
the Treasury for shipments to these designated points of entry (unless 
the item is destined for UNITA), any such exports remain subject to the 
licensing requirements of the Departments of State and/or Commerce.
    2. The expenses incurred by the Federal Government in the 6-month 
period from September 26, 1993, through March 25, 1994, that are 
directly attributable to the exercise of powers and authorities 
conferred by the declaration of a national emergency with respect to 
UNITA are reported at about $85,000, most of which represents wage and 
salary costs for Federal personnel. Personnel costs were largely 
centered in the Department of the Treasury (particularly in the FAC, the 
U.S. Customs Service, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for 
Enforcement, and the Office of the General Counsel) and

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the Department of State (particularly the Bureau of Economic and 
Business Affairs and the Office of the Legal Adviser).
    I shall continue to report periodically to the Congress on 
significant developments, pursuant to 50 U.S.C. 1703(c).
                                            William J. Clinton
The White House,
April 12, 1994.